$35 Tablet Computer:India Tablet Computer Linux-based
$35 Tablet Computer:India Tablet Computer Linux-based – A $35 computer has been released in India that will help low-income individuals to access the internet. The cheap handheld device will come with an internet browser, multimedia player, PDF reader and the ability to video conference. It will tap into a market that previously was unable to afford a computer in the country. The Linux-based computing tool will be most useful to students, who will now be able to enjoy all of the tools that computer-users often take for granted.
“The aim is to reach such devices to the students of colleges and universities, and to provide these institutions a host of choices of low-cost access devices around $35 or less in near future,” said one individual at the human resources ministry.
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With so many devices being designed with education in mind, it will be interesting to see how it is put to use inside of the classroom. The technology is not ahead of its time, in fact, if anything, it is behind its time, but it will bring thousands, if not millions of impoverished Indian citizens up to speed with the current technology.
India is currently home to 1.2 billion people. Their per capita income stands at $1,030, leaving many of the less fortunate unable to purchase personal computers and learn how to use them. A study last year showed that rural markets in India could grow to as high as $600 billion over the course of the next few years.
The new device opens up a whole new market to the technology industry.
Anonymous | Jul 24, 2010 | Reply
“Their per capita income stands at $1,030, leaving many of the less fortunate unable to purchase personal computers and learn how to use them.”
THEN WHY DO SO MANY OF THEM WORK AT TECH SUPPORT CALL CENTERS………….. Microsoft. :evileye:
Orion | Jul 25, 2010 | Reply
This is a great step forward. Course, MS, Apple and other corporate tech companies don’t see enough $$$ in this thing. No problem here. The children of under and undeveloped countries will benefit and grow up to shape their countries to even greater heights and perhaps even leave the rich countries in the dust. Literally people power – billions of them.
Kenny Hendrick | Jul 25, 2010 | Reply
We purchased one of the aforementioned models (actually it was the $78.00 model).
Spare the poor….keep that junk in the factories. There’s no way it will outlast a week on the streets (or in our case, within the confines of our building).
nano_watt | Jul 27, 2010 | Reply
Yes there is room for sinicism, but what a poke in the eye for those who think only Americans are capable of creating things.
Kennyhendrick | Jul 27, 2010 | Reply
Now let’s try to pull ourselves away from the easy (and simple) pitfall of leaning toward poking at cultures or colors, ad infinitum and nauseaum.
Let’s think about the claim for a second:
It will help the poor to come out of their underdeveloped state to join in all the fun the capitalists are having (first of all wake up, it turns to hell from your present state forward, the bigger picture is not always so apparent).
But more importantly, and back to the claim that these cheap (yes they certainly are that indeed) pc’s will help the poor.
Firstly it’s common PR to trick the mindless masses into spontaneous (and not so rational) buying. Show a flashy picture, claim the impossible, almost free, etc. and people buy it since the same corporations creating the junk also own the media making sure the last three remaining brain cells belong to your crap.
Rest assured, It’s the capitalism setting in. You’ll have some blissful moments and the rest of your triumphs will be shadowed by getting sales up (despite the fact that you’re selling cheap technology that lasts in the manner of hours or days and not years).
Help the poor, you say?
Let’s think about that claim.
Firstly, who’s shelling out the cash required to give them electricity? Oh and darn it, does it rain in india?
Yes? Ouch, those homeless non-corporate types will probably need a cardboard box with a lock on it to keep the other homeless (or if you’re in my country, the police) from breaking in and seizing the property for themselves.
Wow, wait a minute, I hope these people have some sort of internet connection.
See, those “goodly” things are all they’re chocked up to be and rarely are. Capitalism and food for instance; lucky me, I have a refrigerator full of food. But somehow our minds are clouded to not notice that the capitalists packed it so chock full of poisons and such in an effort to “maximize profits” that we’re dying of some things you people are believing you want (from the sounds of it, Americanism).
…(the point I’m making here, is primarily that you corporate (*^^$ have lied since the beginning of time: Buy this product and it’ll make your life easier, buy this oil and you’ll driver farther….but the big picture means that somewhere some people are paying a high toll so that some others can live their privileged lifestyles.
Help the poor? That’s not really believable now is it? We can however believe that you want to help yourselves (to our labor/money) to better yourselves while causing the victims of your merchandising grief and expense.
See, you are in india and far be it from me to hire guido to force you to live up to your warranty, you’re just too far and speaking words I can’t even understand (even with my ph6t in pigenglish).
I realize I’ve embelished this writ with more pointless colloquialisms causing some obscurity of the facts (that you can’t possibly help the poor by selling them your junk that benefits only you, the “haves”.)
Please read between the lines
Faijul Islam Mobin | Aug 16, 2010 | Reply
I want to buy a “$35tablet computer” from Bangladesh